I was hoping the exclusivity period would be shorter as I'd like to play the game (the reboot was decent) but won't be paying anywhere near full price for it after the shenanigans that went on. Looks as though I'll be waiting until well into 2017, then. Reply+3

I'd like to point that the worst thing anyone said to the poster in question before he stamped his feet and stormed off was "you're nuts", and not in an aggressive way. That's the extent of the "bullying" that apparently went on. If someone finds that offensive in response to obvious flamebait then perhaps they should retire from the internet.

Anyway, mission accomplished. He made sure half the posts in the forum were about him (LOOK AT MEEEE) and a game unrelated to the one written about in the article. Reply-1

Why does everyone feel the need to gang up and bully people who hold a different opinion?

Wat. No-one bullied anyone. A poster known for making deliberately inflammatory comments made a deliberately inflammatory comment and got called out on it - fairly I might add - and then played the victim card/threw his toys out of the pram. There was absolutely nothing to moderate. Reply+18

Haha, I always knew Dizzy was a spurned SEGA/Dreamcast fanboy. The 10+ years of shitposting in countless comment threads relating to anything that so much as mentions Sony was a bit of a giveaway. Reply+6

That original game with the blocky character models, no voices, and 2D backgrounds is still going to be there. If the remake turns out to be not to your taste, there's always the option of ignoring it and replaying the PS1 version or whatever.

It's not as though Advent Children or any of the other derivative shite has made the original any less chersihed. Reply0

Nah, not just you. Vesperia is the high point of the franchise as far as I'm concerned. It's a beautiful looking game (more so than the subsequent PS3 iterations) and has one of the best, most unique lead characters in a JRPG.

You'd think people posting on a gaming site would be more open-minded about the kind of games that they play than the FIFA/CoD-obsessed general public, but no. If it's not a AAA blockbuster - preferably the 5th/6th/7th installment of a franchise - it may as well not exist. Games released outside of the October-December window apparently don't count either. But, let's face it, it's not like they have any other drums to bang.

I don't have enough time to play everything I want on PS4 and Vita - another console that suppossdly has no games. Reply+6

Nice attempt to shut down all discussion with your "leave Japan based commentators[sic] to those of us that actually understand it, eh?" bullshit. I suppose I should disregard the views of the many foreigners in Japan, including women, who upload vlogs and seem to be having a great time - not least because they feel a lot safer in Japan than they do in their home countries. But only your opinion counts, right?

Maybe you should leave that awful xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic place and come to, say, England, where there were 22,000 reported rapes last year. I wonder how many of the perpetrators own figures with squishy tits. Reply+4

No. I am implying that some of the people laughing at the X1 now were fervently trumping up the PS3 back in 07/08. And it does matter because it makes their bullshit now hypocritical.

Let's assume (unless you have some factual basis for your implcation) that's the case. Is it not equally plausible that the people lauging at the PS3 in 07/08 are now fervently trumping up the X1? Yet for some reason you attack only one set of hypothetical fanboys. STRANGE, THAT. Reply+9

I see the article has yet to be updated with a statement from SCEE. What a surprise.

I love my PS4 but I dearly hope nothing goes wrong with it as that would mean having to deal with the shower of uselessness that is PlayStation Support. A friend of mine phoned their CS number and over two seperate calls spent over two hours on hold. Absolutley shocking. As for email, forget it. Reply+5

My personal game of the year would be Rune Factory 4. I'm not surprised it didn't make the list seeing a) as it was only farted out into the e-shop last month, and b) nobody likes Rune Factory for some strange reason. Anyone with a neglected 3DS should give it a go.

Digital-only is not ideal, but it's better than nothing - and for a long time it looked as though Europe was going to get nothing. I imported a 3DS primarily to play RF4 and, for what it's worth, think the game is worth every penny of that £25. Reply+4

I don't think a couple of RPGs are going to change the fortunes of the Xbox One in Japan. The likes of Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, along with all those excellent exclusive shmups, didn't help the 360 in the long term.

I expect much less effort will be made by MS this time. That probably means, sadly, no Lost Odyssey 2. Reply+15

Unless Microsoft buy Sony (which I'm sure they're considering as a last resort) it doesn't matter to me how many times or by how much they cut the price of the console. They don't have Bloodborne. Never mind, eh? Reply-2

I started to learn Japanese last year so that I can play the Yakuza games that'll never be localized. Well, that and for all those deliciously smutty PC games. But mostly Yakuza. Probably.

There's definitely profit to be had in releasing Yakuza games in the West, but as far as Sega is concerned there isn't enough profit. As others have said, there are equally niche Japanese games with equally abundant text that do make their way over - from smaller companies who don't expect the same kind of return that Sega apparently do.

Yakuza's lack of popularity in the West has always baffled me. Okay, it's not a shooter or a racer or fucking FIFA, but it IS basically Streets of Rage x Shenmue, and everyone loves the shit out of those games. Reply+5

And still the "but Sony did the same thing xx years ago" line is trotted out. Instead of condemning the practice of Microsoft moneyhatting a game that was going to be multiplatform, then using finely honed corporate doublespeak in an attempt to fool potential buyers into thinking it was an indefinite exclusive, BUT SONY DUN IT FIRST! SONY! SONY SONY SONY! It's pathetic. And these people have the audacity to accuse those unhappy with this bullshit of being blinkered fanboys! Good lord.

As for EG ARE TEH BIASED lot, for fuck's sake. How old are you? DON'T PICK ON POOR MICROSOFT! LEAVE THE LITTLE GUY ALONE! MS have gotten shit from everywhere over the last 12-18 because they've deserved it, and they deserve more of it over their latest cuntery. Reply+3

Sony and From Software have a relationship that goes back further than Dark Souls. Bloodborne, like Demon's Souls, is being co-developed by Sony's Japan Studio. Not quite the same thing as throwing money at a developer to secure exclusivity of a title that was always intended to be multi-platform.

If anyone's quietly pleased about all this, it must be Naughty Dog. They now have no competition from a similar game on PS4 late next year, meaning the massacre of Xbox One-exclusive Tomb Raider 2 will be even bloodier than it otherwise would've been. Reply-2

I don't know what all the cretins who keep bringing up what Sony did 15 years ago think the relevance of that is. It's incredibly childish behaviour from people who who are happy to take the moral high ground when they perceive that Eurogamer and its readers and the entire internet are against their poor beleaguered Microsoft. THEY STARTED IT!!11

What Sony did then was shit, and what MS is doing now is shit. It was bad for gamers then and it's bad for gamers now. Reply+3

Those wide open roads carving a path through lonely rural America are looking great. The point-to-point races were always something I loved about Road Rash because it felt as if I was going on a journey rather than just racing.

DrStrangelove: I'm pretty sure an earlier video showed guns but I didn't spot them in the new one. Yay? No guns please. Reply+1